# Matthieu Ladagnous

Matthieu Ladagnous (born 12 December 1984) is a French former road and track racing cyclist, who competed as a professional from 2006 to 2023, spending his entire career with UCI WorldTeam Française des Jeux.
Riding entirely for the Française des Jeux team and its succeeding iterations since his début in 2006, Ladagnous has taken eleven victories during his professional career, including victories in the 2007 Four Days of Dunkirk and 2009 La Tropicale Amissa Bongo Ondimbo stage races.

## Career

Born in Pau, Ladagnous became junior world champion at the madison in Melbourne, Australia in 2002 with his partner Tom Thiblier. In 2003 he won the French national title at the points race for the under-23 level. He also won a bronze medal at the individual sprint (under-23) and a silver medal at the madison with Fabien Patanchon in the elite class. Later that year he and Patanchon became European champions at the under-23 track cycling championships. A year later he won the bronze medal at the scratch in the 2003 under-23 championships. He improved his bronze national individual pursuit manager into a gold, while his points race gold was changed in a silver in 2004. In the elite class he won the madison gold, again alongside Patanchon.
In 2005 he first continued as a track cyclist and added another national under-23 silver to his palmarès at the individual pursuit. A silver medal in the elite class was added at the madison where he teamed up with Patanchon again. At the team pursuit he, Anthony Langella, Fabien Sanchez and Mickaël Mallie won the gold medal and became national elite champions. At the 2005 European championships in Fiorenzuola d'Arda he won a silver medal at the points race. In 2005 he also made his first road cycling appearance. He immediately won the prologue in the Mainfranken-Tour (under-23) and the overall classification. He decided to focus mainly at the road for the 2006 season, but won another team pursuit gold with Mickaël Delage, Jonathan Mouchel, Mikaël Preau and Sylvain Blanquefort. He booked his first road race win in 2006, when he won the fifth stage of the Tour Méditerranéen. The following year he won the fifth stage and the general classification of the Four Days of Dunkirk.
He was named in the start list for the 2017 Giro d'Italia.
In January 2023, entering his eighteenth season as a professional – all with Groupama–FDJ and its preceding iterations – Ladagnous announced that he would retire from the sport at the end of the year.

## Personal life

He is the brother of French rugby union international Caroline Ladagnous.

## Major results
### Track
#### 2002

    1st Madison, UCI Junior Track Cycling World Championships

#### 2003

    1st Madison, UEC European Under-23 Track Championships
    National Track Championships
       1st Under-23 points race
       2nd Madison
       3rd Under-23 individual pursuit

#### 2004

    National Track Championships
       1st Madison
       1st Under-23 individual pursuit
       2nd Points race
    3rd Scratch, UEC European Under-23 Track Championships
    3rd Scratch, UCI Track World Cup Classics, Sydney

#### 2005

    National Track Championships
       1st Team pursuit
       2nd Madison
       2nd Under-23 individual pursuit
    2nd Points race, UEC European Under-23 Track Championships
    2nd UIV Cup, Rotterdam

#### 2006

    1st Team pursuit, National Track Championships

### Road

Source:

#### 2005

    1st Overall Mainfranken-Tour Under-23
       1st Prologue
    1st Overall Kreiz Breizh Elites
       1st Stages 2a & 3
    5th Overall Tour du Loir-et-Cher
    9th Road race, Mediterranean Games

#### 2006

    1st Stage 5 Tour Méditerranéen
    6th Grand Prix de Plumelec-Morbihan
    6th Tour de Vendée
    7th Le Samyn

#### 2007

    1st Overall Four Days of Dunkirk
       1st Young rider classification
       1st Stage 5
    4th Overall Circuit de la Sarthe
       1st Young rider classification

#### 2009

    1st Overall La Tropicale Amissa Bongo Ondimbo
       1st Stage 1
    1st Polynormande
    2nd Tour de Vendée
    4th Overall Tour du Haut Var
    4th Overall Tour de Wallonie
    7th Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne
    9th Overall Étoile de Bessèges
    10th Overall Four Days of Dunkirk
    10th Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise

#### 2010

    2nd Overall Étoile de Bessèges
    2nd Cholet-Pays de Loire
    4th Tour du Doubs

#### 2011

    1st Stage 1 Tour de Wallonie
    2nd Overall Tour du Limousin
       1st Stages 3 & 4
    4th Tour du Doubs
    5th Overall Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen
    7th Tro-Bro Léon
    8th Polynormande

#### 2012

    5th Grand Prix de Plumelec-Morbihan
    6th Overall Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen
    7th E3 Harelbeke
    8th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad

#### 2013

    1st Boucles de l'Aulne
    1st Stage 3 Tour du Limousin
    5th Tour of Flanders
    6th Gent–Wevelgem
    6th Grand Prix de Plumelec-Morbihan
    8th Overall Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen
    8th Gran Premio Nobili Rubinetterie

#### 2014

    7th Tour de Vendée

#### 2015

    4th Overall Tour du Haut Var
    5th Grand Prix de Plumelec-Morbihan

#### 2016

    2nd Overall La Méditerranéenne
       1st Stage 1 (TTT)
    4th Grand Prix de Plumelec-Morbihan
    6th Overall Tour de Picardie
    10th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad

#### 2018

    7th Paris–Camembert
    8th La Roue Tourangelle
    8th Tour du Doubs
    8th Gran Premio Bruno Beghelli

#### 2020

    Combativity award Stage 11 Tour de France

#### 2022

    10th Tro-Bro Léon

#### Grand Tour general classification results timeline

| Grand Tour | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 |
| Giro d'Italia | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 97 | DNF | — | — |
| Tour de France | 112 | — | — | 93 | — | 85 | — | 76 | 71 | DNF | — | — | 126 | 94 |
| / Vuelta a España | — | 89 | 63 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 98 | — | — | — | DNF |
Legend :
| — | Did not compete |
| DNF | Did not finish |